Understanding Fire Fighting in New Product Development

Despite documented benefits, the processes described in the new product development literature often prove difficult to follow in practice. A principal source of such difficulties is the phenomenon of fire fighting the unplanned allocation of resources to fix problems discovered late in a product�...

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Main Author: Repenning, Nelson
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3961